Billy Joel Getting Closer Lyrics

Getting Closer Lyrics

I went searching for the truth

But in my innocence I found

All the con
men and their acrobats

Who stomped me in the ground

If I count up their
percentages

I know they're getting rich

But they haven't taken
everything

Those paybacks are a bitch



Though I've lost quite a
lot

I am still in control

They can keep what they've got

But they
can't have my soul

And if I don't have this all worked out

Still I'm
getting closer, getting closer

I still have far to go no doubt

But I'm
getting closer, getting closer



What was ripped off by
professionals

Is not all that it seems

While I must live up to
contracts

I did not give up my dreams

If I see it as experience

It
hasn't gone to waste

Lately all the missing pieces

Have been falling
into place



And if I could go back and start over somehow

I would
not change that much

Knowing what I know now

Thought there have been
sins

I will regret

Still I'm getting close, getting closer

I don't
have all the answers yet

But I'm getting closer, getting
closer



I'm a mark for every shyster

From Topanga to Berlin

And
I should have learned to kick them out

As soon as they crawled in

So to
every bank in Switzerland

That stores my stolen youth

I'm alright
because despite the laws

You cannot hide the truth



And although
you will say

I am still too naive

But I have not lost faith

In the
things I believe



And if I don't have a this all worked out

Still
I'm getting closer, getting closer

I still have far to go no doubt

But
I'm still getting closer, getting closer